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    Tierra nveva.
    Tierra nueva
    Shows the Atlantic coast from Labrador to north Florida. Publication information from atlas. Text titled "Della terra nova del Bacalaos" on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Gastaldi, Giacomo - Ptolemy
    • Date: 1548-01-01
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    Nautical Atlas of the World, Circular World Map of the Portuguese Hemisphere and Title Page. The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. Produced for King Manuel I of Portugal in 1519 by cartographers Pedro Reinel, his son Jorge Reinel, and Lopo Homem and miniaturist António de Holanda, the atlas contains eight maps on six loose sheets, painted on both sides. This map (folio 1 recto in the atlas)...
    • Contributor: Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Manuel I, King of Portugal - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
    • Date: 1519-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Mathematico[rum] principis, opus geographi[a]e nouiter castigatu[m] & emaculatu[m] additio[n]ibus, raris et inuisis necnon cu[m] tabularum in dorso iucunda explanatione registro quoq[um] totius operis tam Geographico q[uam] etia[m] historiali ...
    Opus geographiae nouiter castigatum & emaculatum additionibus | Opus geographiae noviter castigatum & emaculatum additionibus Catalog Record Only
    Relief shown pictorially. First publication of the Geographica to include a map with the name "America". Imprint from colophon. Text in double columns with 55 lines to a full column. Title page printed in red and black. Signatures: A-D⁶ E-F⁴ G-R⁶ S⁸. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 66481 Phillips, 361 John Boyd Thacher Collection...
    • Contributor: D'angelo, Jacopo - Grüninger, Johann - Abtei Amorbach - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Ptolemy
    • Date: 1522
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    The Drawing of the Modern Geography of the Whole Africa.
    Il disegno della geografia moderna de tutta la parte dell'Africa
    This rare map from 1564 printed on eight copperplates is the finest and most important large-scale map of Africa produced in the 16th century. Earlier maps were mostly printed from woodcuts; copperplates allowed the engraver to reproduce much more detail and finesse. The map was made by the Italian cartographer, engineer, and astronomer Giacomo Gastaldi (circa 1500--66) and engraved by Fabricius Licinus (circa 1521--65)....
    • Contributor: Licinus, Fabricius - Gastaldi, Giacomo
    • Date: 1564-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    London in 1560.
    View of London about the year 1560 Catalog Record Only
    Aerial view to northern horizon. Relief shown pictorially. Facsimile. Original version: [London : s.n., 1739]. Reduced to this size from a large print in the collection of Sr. Hans Sloane Bar't anno 1738. "Reproduced by Historic Urban Plans ... Ithaca, New York 14851, from an engraving in its collection." In publisher's catalog 18, 1976: In 1739 this view, based on an old map no...
    • Contributor: Maitland, William - Historic Urban Plans (Firm) - Sloane, Hans
    • Date: 1560
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    Muriel H. Parry map collection Catalog Record Only The collection consists of some 871 maps that are largely pictorial. Muriel H. Parry, a librarian for the U.S. State Department, compiled the maps and several were deaccessioned from the StateDepartment's library. Formats in the collection include single map and maps in books, magazines, calendars, and advertisements. In addition, there are maps on napkins, gift cards, cloth, etc. Included are maps by Ernest Clegg,...
    • Contributor: Parry, Muriel H. - Chase, Ernest Dudley - Clegg, Ernest - Shelton, Hal - Gill, Macdonald - Harrison, Richard Edes - Wallingford, Daniel K.
    • Date: 1538
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    Portolano maps. Catalog Record Only Portolano, photographed from: Handschriftensammlung Handschrift Nr. 12925 (5 pages) In Nationalbibliothek, Wien.
    • Date: 1539
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    Das heilig Lande mit Ausztheilung der zwoelff Geschlechter.
    Palaestina, des heiligen Landes Beschreibung mit sampt den anstossenden Laendern und Voelctern alss die Ammoniter, Jdumeer [sic], Araber, u.
    Relief shown pictorially. Title and text in German. Place names in Latin. Appears in Sebastian Munster's Cosmographey. Basel : Sebastian Petri, 1588. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Includes notes. LC copy imperfect: Central fold line with 2 stains at center, mended tear in central right margin. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster...
    • Contributor: Münster, Sebastian - Henricpetri, Sebastian
    • Date: 1588-01-01
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    New Map of the Arabia Felix (South-Eastern Arabian Peninsula).
    Arabia Felice nvova tavola
    This map of Arabia Felix is a copper-plate engraving dating from 1561, after Giacomo Gastaldi's map of 1548. It shows the Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Strait of Hormuz, and part of the Indian Ocean. The Qatar Peninsula southeast of Baharam (present-day Bahrain) can be clearly distinguished. This edition is by Girolamo Ruscelli (died 1566), a Venetian cartographer, polymath, and humanist. One of...
    • Contributor: Gastaldi, Giacomo - Ruscelli, Girolamo, Died Approximately 1565
    • Date: 1561-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    Americæ pars, nunc Virginia dicta : primum ab Anglis inuenta, sumtibus Dn. Walteri Raleigh, Equestris ordinis Viri, Anno Dn̄i. MDLXXXV regni Vero Sereniss. nostræ Reginæ Elisabethæ XXVII, hujus vero Historia peculiari Libro ... Scale ca. 1:1,700,000. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Pictorial map. Covers coastal region from Cape Fear to Chesapeake Bay. From Thomas Hariot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, 1590. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Bry, Theodor De - White, John - Harriot, Thomas
    • Date: 1590-01-01
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    Novvs Orbis.
    Novus Orbis Catalog Record Only
    Dedication in cartouche: "Doctiss. et ornatiss. Rich. Hakluyto F.G.S. Cuipotius quam tibi Orbem huncnovum dicassem: cum tu assiduis eruditisq. libris tuis ipsum eundem in dies illustriorem reddas. Eumigitur Uti tua humanitate dignum est accipe, teq nos vicissim amabimus. Paris. cal. Maij. MDLXXXVll." Gift; John (Jack) M. Raymond; July 2016. Appears in: Petri Martyr d'Anghiera, De Orbe Novo ... Decades octo ... Paris, Apud Guillemum...
    • Contributor: Gaulle, Francis
    • Date: 1587
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    Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 2 Recto, Northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Northern Europe and Folio 2 Verso, Central Atlantic Ocean with the Azores. The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. Produced for King Manuel I of Portugal in 1519 by cartographers Pedro Reinel, his son Jorge Reinel, and Lopo Homem and miniaturist António de Holanda, the atlas contains eight maps on six loose sheets, painted on both sides. One side of this map (folio 2 recto...
    • Contributor: Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Manuel I, King of Portugal - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
    • Date: 1519-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    Brugae Flandrorum Urbs et Emporium Mercatu Celebre an a Chr CIC IC LXII. Facsimile, reprinted in 1900s, index included. In Latin, in color. Shows city plan, waterways, transportation routes, landmarks, terrain in and around the city of Bruges, Belgium. Map of Bruges, Belgium.
    • Contributor: Geraldus, Marcus
    • Date: 1562-01-01
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    Norvmbega et Virginia, 1597.
    Norumbega et Virginia Catalog Record Only
    Covers coast from R. Primero in the north to Buelta de Arenas in the south. Shows rivers and Native American settlements. Relief shown pictorially. Gift; John (Jack) M. Raymond; July 2016. Appears in: Wytfliet, Corneille. Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum. 1597.
    • Contributor: Wytfliet, Corneille
    • Date: 1597
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    Map of the Sea. The Carta marina of the Swedish geographer and historian Olaus Magnus is one of the earliest accurate cartographic depictions of the Scandinavian peninsula. Drafted in Rome in 1539, by one of the more prominent Scandinavian Catholics in higher ecclesiastical service, it contains detail that is lacking in many other early maps of the region. Originally intended for his Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (A description...
    • Contributor: Magnus, Olaus
    • Date: 1572-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    L'Amérique centr[ale] Shows North America south of Canada including the Caribbean. Traced from a ms. world map created for Henri II in 1542 as reproduced in Jomard's Les monuments de la geographie (plate XIX.1), 1842-1862 (Phillips 251). Reversed in lower left: 1556?. Oriented with south to the top. Pen-and-ink and red paint on tracing paper. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 83 Available also through the Library of Congress...
    • Date: 1542-01-01
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    [Maps of Guiana, from approximately 1595 to 1970] Catalog Record Only This record covers single maps of Guiana which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps as well as some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These maps cover Guiana as a whole and regions and physical features of Guiana as...
    • Date: 1595
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    Russiae, Moskoviae et Tartariae descriptio. No. 1 Karta iz izdaniia: Atlas Aziatskoi Rossii.- SPb., Pereselencheskoe Upravlenie, kartogr. art. Zav. A.F. Marks, 1914. Za ramkoi karty perevody nadpisei na karte Otpechatano v Kartograficheskom zavedenii Iu. Iu. Gash. Kopiia s karty Dzhenkinsona, izdannoi V.Kordtom. Original map at: National Library of Russia From the atlas "Атлас Азиатской России."
    • Contributor: Jenkinson, Anthony
    • Date: 1562-01-01
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    [Egypt, course of Nile] Catalog Record Only Title devised by cataloger. Oriented with north to the bottom. Copied from the 13th century Codex, the oldest available copy of "Geographia". Includes geographic notes on the margins. LC copy accompanied by negative photocopy. LC copy annotated: "Egypt, Course of Nile, Ptolemy, Mt. Athos manuscript, 2-4."
    • Contributor: Ptolemy
    • Date: 1500
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    Floridae Americae provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio auctorè Iacobo le Moyne cui cognomen de Morgues, qui Laudōnierum, altera Gallorum in eam prouinciam nauigatione comitat est, atque adhibitis aliquot militibus ob pericula, regionis ... Relief shown pictorially. Shows Florida region, northeastern coastline, Port Royal, Fort Caroline, Cuba, rivers, cities, and other geographical entities. Mounted on cloth backing. Published in Le Moyne's Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provincia Gallis acciderunt ... 1591, pt. 2 of Théodore de Bry's Great voyages. Accompanied by a reduced reproduction, with missing medallion and part of title and scale bar cut-off. (1...
    • Contributor: Le Moyne De Morgues, Jacques
    • Date: 1591
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    [Celestial globe gores] Title provided by cataloger. Likely proof sheets, as lines for the tropics and the ecliptic are missing. Earliest known celestial gores. Bound in the Schöner Sammelband. Gores trimmed and mounted on paper. LC copy annotated by Schöner. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöner, Johann
    • Date: 1517
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    Theatrvm orbis terrarvm.
    Theatrum orbis terrarum
    Relief shown pictorially. Colophon: 20 Mai 1570. Catalogus auctorum includes 87 names. T.p. verso blank. Includes 53 map sheets, with descriptive text on verso. Acid offset on facing pages. Blank leaves inserted between map sheets. Front cover displays the name and arms of Jean, comte de Hoya, bishop of Münster and Osnabrück (1566-74). Phillips, 3389 Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, Ort 1A Includes "De Mona...
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Llwyd, Humphrey - Diesth, Aegid. Coppenius (Aegidius Coppenius)
    • Date: 1570-01-01

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    Geografia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo di diversi avtori raccolte et messe secondo l'ordine di Tolomeo con i disegni di molte città et fortezze di diverse provintie ... ga10 2006-03-10 sent to CMT Relief shown pictorially. Phillips, 3392 Each plate or leaf is numbered with pencil, pen-and-ink, or both, with some numbers crossed out. Map 79 is printed on blue paper. Strips of paper affixed to the margins of some plates. Rebound in brown leather incorporating original tooled front and back boards. Includes manuscript table of contents, which does not correspond exactly...
    • Contributor: Lafréry, Antoine
    • Date: 1575-01-01

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    Le novveav monde descovvert et illvstre de nostre temps
    Nouveau monde descouvert et illustre de nostre temps
    Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut. Includes illustrations and notes. Described in the Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of current acquisitions, v. 6 no. 3 May 1949. p. 20-21. LC copy mounted on cloth. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1305 Gift ; Lessing J. Rosenwald ; June 29, 1948. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Chaudière, Guillaume - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Thevet, André
    • Date: 1581-01-01
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    Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection. Catalog Record Only The Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection contains some 10,000 manuscript and printed sheets. A large portion of these map and atlas sheets were compiled by the Austrian cartographer and general Franz Ritter von Hauslab. Upon Hauslab's death, they were acquired by Prince Jordan II of Liechtenstein, whose own maps complemented the Hauslab collection, hence the name Hauslab-Liechtentstein. Within the collection there are examples of various types...
    • Contributor: H.P. Kraus (Firm) - Hauslab, Franz - Johann II
    • Date: 1500